Comments about ‘Obama signs bill to avert default, open government’

Tomorrow, Thursday, had the potential to be a very bad day. I had half prepared
myself to watch my RSP's tank, resisting the paranoid view that it need be
turned into a few small bits of gold. I wondered if my AF home was going to be
worth eight dollars by the end of the week. I'm out of the country right
now but was ready by noon today to transfer as much as I could out of the US
banking system and get ahold of a bunch of cash. US cash; I don't think
there was going to be a problem with getting Canadian dollars. I'm not sure
it was all the right thing to do but I do know this; this isn't how to run
the railroad. We've got to do better than these childish antics. We dodged
the proverbial bullet here, but only by kicking the metaphorical can down the
road. This exercise looms yet again in our future. Have we learned anything
today?

Anyone with the smallest amount of civics knowledge and experience with our
modern political system knew the Republicans had zero chance of winning this
battle. It baffles me that they even attempted it, knowing it was a lost cause,
and knowing the damage it would cause.

Their naivety and hubris will
be punished in the 2014 midterm elections.

Certainly worth slipping in that 3 billion to a Kentucky project (hmm, I wonder
which senator wanted that) and also added in McConnell's debt ceiling
trick. You see, apparently they passed something in this deal where the next
time they want to increase the debt ceiling they'd have to vote to NOT do
it instead of voting to do it. Obama can then veto it and unless they can
override it the next debt ceiling increase goes into effect.

I am so proud of President Obama. He stood his ground and did not cave to the
tea party. I know he did it for the good of our country. The tea party showed
their true colors of how dysfunctional they are. Hopefully we can recover from
the damage they did and get back on the right track.

It may be difficult to win back the trust and support of the American people if
the federal government continues spending at unsustainable levels.

I
don't understand where and how the complacency has set in. I can understand
past decades of deficit spending...we were naive and ignorant. But $17
trillion, and $70 Trillion including unfunded liabilities, is unthinkable.

We are on course to spend nearly $400 billion in interest payments
alone. What would have, what will happen, when interest rates increase? How
will we be able to pay $1 Trillion in interest?

We need adults to
represent us in the White House and Congress. We need people who will go to DC
and pass a budget (hasn't been done in 4 years), and more specifically a
budget that balances/doesn't borrow more money. This will require cuts to
programs: entitlement programs and defense spending. It must be done.

Then we must begin paying down our debt so it doesn't enslave future
generations.

Anything short of this is "unpatriotic", in the
words of Senator Barack Obama.

I tell you right now....if that guy Obama and his liberal socialist followers
don't agree to cut, cut and cut some more on Social Security, Medicare,
Medicaid, farm programs and all the other welfare programs....and NOT raise
taxes one single cent on our job creators....if they don't agree to do
those things in order to save OUR America...in just a few short months we
TeaPublicans WILL shut down the government and we WILL force a government
default on paying obama's bills....and we will NOT back down the next time!
You have been given fair warning....make those cuts TEaPublicans are
demanding....or America and the whole world will suffer because of your lack of
courage! Yes folks, we TeaPublicans ARE taking back OUR America in 2014 n 2016.
"P n P" in 2016.....Perry n Palin....yes folks it IS going to happen!

There was never any chance of default, unless Obama decided to pull another
"make things as painful as possible," defy the LAW and somehow block the
required distribution and debt service payments using the billions of week to
week tax money that continuously rolls in.

Obama will now continue
his Imperial Presidency, with virtually no opposition, spending more money and
refusing to control spending.

You said, "knew the Republicans had zero
chance of winning this battle. It baffles me that they even attempted it,
knowing it was a lost cause, and knowing the damage it would cause."

I can't believe we keep borrowing money we cannot repay. Do you
know the damage that will cause? I suppose a collapse of our financial system
means little to you....

The same thing was said when a small group of
people stood up to the motherland and the most powerful military and navy at the
time. A few years later a new nation was born where people had liberty and
freedom. Which the socialists and left wing of the country have slowly eroded
along with others, until we are slaves to our master "debt" and
usury.

Good job! Hope and change! Anything to get that golden egg,
even if you have to kill the hen to get it.

If the reasonable people of this country let them, the GOP and their ideologues
will destroy this great and secular representative republic. Fortunately, the
GOP and their ideologues are going the way of the dinosaurs and the sooner the
better.

I like how low the approval rating is for congress, but next election we will
probably elect over 90% of them back into congress again. We as citizens like to
forget the past and relect the same old people like our senator Hatch. But
atleast we know that next election Hillary Clinton will win since the Tea Party
help weaken the republicans. Thank you Tea Party members.

The knife has been stuck in the Tea Party. It is a self inflicted wound. Now,
Tea Party, why don't you just keep twisting it in 2014?

I have
to remind you all the time that much of the deficit and a whole lot of the
national debt is due to Republican malfeasance leading to two unfunded wars. a
tax cut that mostly benefited the wealthy, and a drug benefit package that was
never paid for, not to mention Republican sponsored deregulation that created
the basis for a financial disaster in 2008 that continues to this day. Do you
really think that shutting down the government is going to help that?

"As the deal neared final passage in the House Wednesday, Obama said it was
now time for leaders in Washington to win back the trust of Americans that was
lost during the debt-and-spending crisis."

"Trust"? NOT
GOING TO HAPPEN. Except for 20 or 30 fiscally responsible individuals (Mr. Cruz
and his ilk), the rest of Washington are self-interested hucksters.

Unless we cut about HALF the Federal spending, all is lost. That is the only
way we reverse the National Debt. That is the only way we allow our free market
economy to thrive. That is the only way we can afford to continue to lead the
world.

Again, NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. We are circling the drain. See
y'all in the pipes.

I've read through the article and all of the comments, and what I see is
relief that the inevitable has been postponed. However, it is still inevitable,
and to paraphrase liberal ted; "Welcome to the Titanic, have another
drink" not just the wealthy, but all of us will sink!

Yes, what a victory for the Democrats! More free money for everyone in
government! What's another trillion dollars debt every year to them? There
are no consequences if you have a money printing press, right? Be irresponsible
and spend, spend, spend, tax, tax, there are no consequences are there?

Very disappointing. Had hoped we'd have the intestinal fortitude as a
nation to see this through to a complete default/reboot of our government...
instead we chickened out and issued the government another credit card. We are
fools.